Nations get as good or as bad a government as they deserve.

COURAGE IS THE FLEEING FORWARD.

The last function of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which surpass it.

It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

Another form of wastefulness is expenditure of words beyond the income of ideas.

Thegalleries are full of critics. They play no ball, they fight no fights. Theymake no mistakes because they attempt nothing. Down in the arena are thedoers. They make mistakes because they try many things. The man who makes nomistakes lacks boldness and

To beprepared is half the victory.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

Speech is of time; silence is of eternity.

Win/winis an attitude, not an outcome.

Nothing lays itself open to the change of exaggeration more than the language of naked truth.

Soremarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.